Quotes About Performance

Coach isn't the one playing. The players do that. The coach can only help with planning so if the team loses, I don't think the coach is not as accountable as we hold him as a nation.

It is a process of finding the right music then planning a costume to fit that style of music.

I wasn't planning on being a comedian; I just liked to laugh. Somebody said I should do it and that's how I started.

A result doesn't determine the planning on the sporting side.

I always keep planning to go back to theatre but I am waiting for a challenging and meaningful role. I want it to be something that has not been done before and excite me enough to do it.

When you have the cast, the sets, the lights, an opera takes on its own life. I'm not one of those directors who marches in with a set of plans.

I've got no plans to be a ballet dancer at the moment.

I don't want people losing respect for me as a player. I want to go out in every game and perform to the highest level. I have no retirement plans. I've had a lot of injuries but I want to continue playing.

Preseason game plans are always about fundamentals and playing football. You're not trying to out-scheme anybody, you're just trying to beat people and out-execute people. That's what's fun to me.

You had to have a great voice or talent as a musician before imaging or marketing plans came into play.

The game in T20 cricket moves so fast and guys are always putting you under pressure - you can have plans for the likes of Chris Lynn and Glenn Maxwell and try to execute them but they can then do the exact opposite of what you expect, especially Maxwell.

Amit Mishra has got that experience. He has played 10-12 years of international cricket. Whenever he bowls those four overs, he knows exactly what his plans are. He has bowled to almost every player, and he knows where to bowl to them.

You can come up with all the gameplans that you want but the guys in the middle have to execute those plans. If Jimmy Anderson or Stuart Broad serves up a leg-stump half-volley, you can't turn round and blame Andy Flower.

If you move in and out, throw shots and use angles and the guy's feet are planted, you look a lot better.

If you drag your shoe a bit those plastic spikes or rubber spikes can be almost as bad as metal spikes.

I have always felt that doing too much of homework makes the performance look plastic. I don't even watch the monitor after I finish my scene because I can't reprise it. I just go with the flow.

I really concentrate on what's on my plate at the moment and do the very best I can.

Whenever you're playing on the pitch, you have to step up to the plate and perform.

When I went to home plate in a game-tied situation or with a chance to do something and help the ballclub win one, I'd try to make eye contact with the pitcher.

The old saying was, 'Boggs never drives in any runs.' I played in 155 games. I led off. That's 155 plate appearance where I come up with nobody on.

There's so much attached to playing shortstop that you lose your concentration on hitting, unless you're a natural hitter. There's so much to think about in the field, you don't have time to think about what you did at the plate last time. 'How did he get me out?'

I always say that I think my job is behind home plate, call a good game, play some good defense, and also, I know I was not a power hitter.

He sliced the ball when he had it on a plate.

When it's your chance to step up to the plate, just hit it out of the park, and everybody will forget about everything that came before.